Domino’s Pizza has seen success from its UK operations, with the fourth successive quarter of double-digit like-for-like sales growth. In the 13 weeks since the end of the company’s first half, UK sales were up 12.9%, helped by a shift to online ordering and 13 new stores were opened, bringing the total in the year to date to 21.

Internationally, the company’s German division continued its transformation plan, with eductions in delivery areas and local marketing spend, and a focus on “pizza quality and operational effectiveness”. Several underperforming stores have already been mothballed to leave 11 corporate and 11 franchised outlets in the country.

David Wild, CEO, commented: "We are delighted with the like-for-like performance in our core UK business and remain on track for our targeted new store opening programme. We are building on our success on-line with the roll-out of our new website and a series of enhancements to continue to make it easy for our customers to order Domino's.

"Progress in Germany is slower than we would have liked, but we are committed to the execution of our strategy. Our performance in Switzerland is encouraging.

"We face more challenging comparatives for the final quarter, but we remain confident of a satisfactory outcome for the year and are planning to build on this success in 2015."